Shock Treatment (Don Ellis album)

Shock Treatment
Studio album by Don Ellis
Released 1968
Recorded February 14 & 15, 1968
Genre Jazz
Length 66:36 CD reissue with bonus tracks
Label Columbia
CS 9668
Producer John Hammond
Don Ellis chronology
Electric Bath
(1967)		 Shock Treatment
(1968)		 Autumn
(1968)

Shock Treatment is an album by trumpeter Don Ellis recorded in 1968 and released on the Columbia label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]
Rolling Stone(positive) [4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[5]

Rolling Stone writer John Grissim wrote on the album's release that "Shock Treatment isn't really. But it does offer ten tightly arranged compositions notable for brassy melodic lines superimposed on a rhythmically complex percussion base. The album's desirability as an addition to a record collection is largely dependent upon whether you have a taste for a big band sound".[4] The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars stating "Don Ellis was such a talented trumpeter, composer, and organizer that everything he recorded as a leader has at least some unusual moments worth exploring. His big bands were characterized by big brassy arrangements, odd meters that somehow always swung, lots of trumpet solos by Ellis, and an often visceral excitement. Although not equal to his best records such as Electric Bath, this late recording of Ellis' band is filled with all these traits, and thus exudes lots of excitement and electricity".[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz said "There are signs that Ellis was moving in a more commercial direction at this point, perhaps aware that jazz was still losing ground to pop and rock, though he must have known that as long as popular music was dance-driven it was unlikely that his work would have a major market presence".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Don Ellis except as indicated

  1. "A New Kind of Country" (Hank Levy) - 4:10
  2. "Night City" (Don Ellis, Kelly MacFadden) - 2:56
  3. "Homecoming" - 3:02
  4. "Mercy Maybe Mercy" (Levy) - 3:24
  5. "Zim" (John Magruder) - 4:03
  6. "Opus 5" (Howlett Smith) - 9:23
  7. "Star Children" - 3:25
  8. "Beat Me Daddy, Seven to the Bar" - 6:16
  9. "Milo's Theme" - 4:28
  10. "Seven Up" (Smith) - 4:03
  11. "The Tihai" - 8:48
  12. "Zim" [alternate take] (Magruder) - 4:04 Bonus track on CD reissue
  13. "I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson) - 5:29 Bonus track on CD reissue
  14. "Rasty" - 2:52 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Don Ellis discography accessed May 27, 2013
  2. 1 2 Loewy, S. Allmusic Review, accessed May 27, 2013
  3. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 409. ISBN 0141023279.
  4. 1 2 Grissim, John (9 November 1968). "Reviews". Rolling Stone (San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.).
  5. ↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 71. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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